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The Saturnalia (which means 'sun-stop' is the week-long pagan festival of the winter solstice which began on December the 17th(The festival originally ended on December 19 and was later extended to December 23.) as the sun was seen to be rising further to the south and thought of as "dying". By December the 25th, the ancient world's solstice, it could be recognised as beginning to turn northwards again and was said to be "re-born" and therefore was proclaimed to be the birthday of the sun-deity. It is also important to note that these dates reference the Julian calendar, not the Gregorian (which we currently use). The actual days Saturnalia was celebrated correspond to December 30-January 5. From https://en.m.wikibooks.org/wik....i/Hebrew_Roots/Negle
